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WFMY-TV
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| Greensboro / Winston-Salem / High Point, North Carolina |
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| Branding | WFMY, News2 |
| Slogan | Dependable Local Coverage |
| Channels | Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: 51 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS, The AccuWeather Channel on DT2 |
| Owner | Gannett |
| Founded | September 22, 1949 |
| Call letters meaning | Began as the TV arm of an FM station, now defunct |
| Former affiliations | ABC (secondary, 1949-63), NBC (secondary, 1949-53), DuMont (secondary, 1949-56) |
| Website | [1] |
WFMY-TV "WFMY News2", is the CBS station for the Greensboro–High Point–Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Piedmont Triad) designated market area. It is licensed to Greensboro. Currently owned by the Gannett Company, the station's transmitter is located in Randleman, North Carolina with studios just outside downtown Greensboro on Phillips Ave. The station is carried on cable channel 9 in most parts of the market.
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The station began operation on September 22, 1949 as the second television station in North Carolina, just a few months after fellow CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte. It was owned by the Greensboro News Company, publishers of the Greensboro Daily News and Daily Record (now the Greensboro News & Record). The News Company had put WFMY-FM on the air in 1947, but the radio station shut down in the 1950s. It aired programs from all four networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont). NBC moved to WSJS-TV (now WXII-TV) when it signed on in 1953 and WFMY shared ABC with WSJS until WGHP-TV signed on in 1963.
In 1965, the News Company was bought by what became Landmark Communications. The station was acquired by Harte-Hanks Communications in 1976, and by Gannett in 1989.
WFMY's local programming, including long-running news program "The Good Morning Show" with Lee Kinard, and children's program "The Old Rebel Show" pre-empted the CBS Morning News from the 1950s through the 1980s. WGGT (now WMYV) aired the CBS Morning News until 1985, and afterwards WFMY began to run the broadcast on delay from 8-10am following "The Good Morning Show". Lee Kinard went on to host the WFMY evening news until his retirement in the 1990s. WFMY does not carry CBS's Saturday Early Show; instead, it carries a Saturday edition of "The Good Morning Show," followed by the CBS kids' block.
Another important local daytime program from the 1970s was "Sandra and Friends", hosted by current news anchor Sandra Hughes. This was one of the first shows in the region to be hosted by a black woman.
On September 25, 1984 (source: http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20001214X40964&key=1), the station's number one newsgathering tool, SKY 2, did itself become news. The Bell Jet Ranger Helicopter, piloted by Tom Haroski, was attempting to assist in the rescue of a construction worker trapped atop a water tower in Kernersville, NC. The tower was being dismantled when a piece of steel snapped and trapped the worker for hours. He was bleeding to death when, late that night, SKY 2 was called in to assist. The pilot began lowering the chopper above the tower. An EMS worker on board was going to attempt the rescue. As the chopper hovered over the tower the tail rotor hit one of the steel beams of the tower sending the helicopter nose first into the ground. The images were captured on tape by competitor WXII and broadcast around the country. The pilot and rescue worker were killed instantly. In a sad footnote it was determined that the worker they were attempting to reach had died before the chopper ever took off.
WFMY began using a new version of SKY 2 (painted black) after the accident, but eventually retired the chopper altogether.
5,6, & 11pm News
- Sandra Hughes, Anchor
- Kent Bates, Anchor
- Eric Chilton, Chief Meteorologist
- Greg Kerr, Sports Director
Good Morning Show
- Jay Rickerts, Morning Anchor
- Rosemary Plybon, Morning Anchor
- Ed Matthews, Morning Meteorologist
Weather
- Robb Ellis, Meteorologist
- Leigh Brock, Meteorologist
Reporters
- Frank Mickens, Weekend Anchor/Reporter
- Mac Ingraham, Reporter
- Tanya Rivera, Weekend Anchor/2 Wants To Know Reporter
- Tracey McCain, Backpack Journalist
- Justin Quesinberry, Backpack Journalist
- Erica Taylor, School Solutions Reporter
- Jill McNeal, Reporter
- Erich Spivey, Reporter
- Malia Rible, Web World Reporter
 WFMY logo c. 1968. |
 WFMY logo c. 1975. The "wfmy-tv" (in lowercase letters) was retained until the 1990s, while the "sailboat 2" was retained until 2001. |
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WFMY 2 (Greensboro) - WBTV 3 (Charlotte) - WRAL 5 (Raleigh) - WNCT 9 (Greenville) - WILM-LP 10 (Wilmington) |
| See also: ABC, Fox, NBC, PBS, CW, MNTV and Other stations in North Carolina |
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Categories: Television stations in Winston-Salem/Greensboro/High Point | Television stations in North Carolina | CBS network affiliates | Gannett TV | Greensboro, North Carolina | Channel 2 TV stations in the United States | Television channels and stations established in 1949 | North Carolina stubs | United States television station stubs